How Rush Limbaugh's day starts:
1) Wake up.
2) Go to http://www.lexisnexis.com/ to see what the world has said about him.
3) Get out of bed.
Did you ever see the movie Other People's Money, with Danny Devito and Gregory Peck? It was supposed to be anti-business and capitalism but turned out being pretty fair and showing that the liberal feel good approach isn't always the right thing to do.
Anyway, every morning Devito's character, Lawrence Garfield, known affectionately as Larry the Liquidator, would wake up and, from bed, peck away on his computer, Carmen, asking her what had happened to his latest stock target. That picture is what your comment immediately brought to mind.
from the movie:
Memorable Quotes from
Kate Sullivan: Someday the laws will change to put you out of business.
Other People's Money (1991)
Lawrence Garfield: Change the laws all you want, but you can't stop the game. I'll still by here. I adapt.
[Kate offers Lawrence 'greenmail' to drop an unfriendly take-over bid]
Kate Sullivan: It's not illegal.
Lawrence Garfield: It's immoral - a distinction lawyers ignore.
Lawrence Garfield: I love money more than the things it can buy... but what I love more than money is other people's money.
Lawrence Garfield: Since when do you have to be hungry to eat a doughnut. It doesn't taste any better.
Lawrence Garfield: Make as much as you can for as long as you can. Whoever has the most when he dies is the winner.
Lawrence Garfield: I take from the Rich, I give to the middle class... Well, the upper middle class.
Lawrence Garfield: I gave her "Hiawatha" when all she wanted was a touchdown.
Lawrence Garfield: I never met a person so hard to feed.
Lawrence Garfield: Would you like a donut?
Kate Sullivan: No thank you. I'm not hungry.
Lawrence Garfield: Gotta be hungry to eat a donut? I never heard of such a thing.
Bill Coles: Can I speak frankly?
Lawrence Garfield: No. Lie to me! Tell me how thrilled you are to know me. I always speak frankly. I hate people who say, "Can we speak frankly?" It means they're bullshittin' me the rest of the time.
Lawrence Garfield: You know, at one time there must've been dozens of companies making buggy whips. And I'll bet the last company around was the one that made the best goddamn buggy whip you ever saw. Now how would you have liked to have been a stockholder in that company? You invested in a business and this business is dead. Lets have the intelligence, lets have the DECENCY to sign the death certificate, collect the insurance, and invest in something with a future.